"Thank you." She shrugged and wrapped her arms around his waist to hug him back. "You're probably a really good friend because you've had so much practice. Maybe that's why I'm so sad. Alec was my first everything, you know. My first kiss, my first boyfriend, my first sexual partner, my first fiance - everything. It's like the world ended. I know that's an exaggeration, but I just feel really - " She shook her head, unable to find words that weren't hyperbolic.